Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of 4 1/2 acres of Madrid sweet clover, planted on the contour on May 26, 1945, at the rate of two pounds per acre. Clover has been grassed and an electric fence separates it from the adjacent cultivated field. TX. 1015.
Date: November 28, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Switch grass doing good on a turned out field. Naturally reseeded. No Assistance. TX, 42-392.
Date: November 16, 1945
Creator: Bill, F. Lewis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Angleton grass (A. a????latus). King Ranch seed field.
Date: November 7, 1947
Creator: Foster, Dean (?)
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a heath aster or aster ericoides plant. TX-43, 254 [?].
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a Maximillian Sunflower. TX-43 [?], 233.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of rancher Pat Higgins holding runners of Angleton grass growing in rod rows. TX-46, 393.
Date: November 15, 1949
Creator: San Antonio Express
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. Here he checks it for proper adjustment as recording starts. Picture # 5 of a series. TX-46, 266-E.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. The floats are being placed within the rings. Picture # 2 in a series. TX-46, 266-B.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. Water-holding rings are in place. One picture of a series. TX-46, 266-A.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by the Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Bull. The device is completely set up. The recorder is on the left. The water supply drum is on the right. Rings, floats and water on the lower right. Picture # 4 in a series. TX-46, 266-D.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a heath aster plant. Aster ericoides [an outdated classification]. TX-43, 254.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Maximillian sunflowers. TX-43, 233.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management

Photograph of Infiltrometer built by Soil Conservationist Service [SCS] scientist, A.D. Bull. SCS technicians examine the recording instrument. No. 3 of a series.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management

Photograph of an infiltrometer built by Soil Conservation Service scientist A. D. Dull from Woodward, Oklahoma. Here he explains it to D.G. Kolkar, soil conservation student, from Mumbai (orig. Bombay], India. TX-46. 266 F.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Hart, James
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of clipped bluestem plot, the same as in TX-43, 229-A. Average forage yield of this and 9 other plots was 5,567 pounds per acre. Yield of mulch was 1580 pounds per acre. TX-43, 229-B.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of terraced waterway seeded and sodded to Bermuda grass in April 1947. The field on the right empties terraces here and field on the left will do as when it is terraced in the near future. Water finally empties into Spring Creek. Dense stand of grass now carries water safely. Note remains of old gullies gouged out by run off before waterway and terraces were built. Soil Conservation Services technician Hillard Hoffman inspects the grass. TX-44, 813.
Date: November 4, 1948
Creator: Fox, Lester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of ungrazed Buffalo grass on an abandoned golf course. The area had been burned a year previously. See TX-43, 228-B, the photo of all-clipped Buffalo grass. TX-43-228-A.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a typical spot for the grazing of little bluestem grass where some is closely grazed, some hedged and some trimmed at the sides. TX-43, 250.
Date: November 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grasses; range condition class: poor. The Post Oak Sand Site. Density: 15%. Little bluestem, 5%.Annual needle, 30%. Perrenial Needles, 20%. Tumble grass, 10%. Stink grass, 5%. Annual dropseed, 5%. Weeds, 5%. And others, 5%. TX-43-215.
Date: November 14, 1946
Creator: Mika, F. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of King Ranch Bluestem seed, clean and of commercial quality. High grade plantable material. Size of seed in original negative about one-half actual size. TX-44, 870.
Date: November 1, 1948
Creator: Davis, David O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History